Cleaning Radiator/?s

[Bob Mulry]

Originally Posted by FireSale

Use water only. I like the wetting agents that claim to increase cooling efficiency but I can't speak to how legal they are at your tracks.

You need distilled water only, not bottled drinking water. It's on the supermarket shelf in jugs. Distilled water has had all of the minerals that contribute to rust removed by boiling and condensing back to the liquid state. It's what my mother used to use in her steam iron before all this Teflon stuff.

Dale

Hi,

Even with distilled water rust will form.....

Rust is Iron Oxide (fe2o3), all you need is water (h2o) or air and iron for rust to form....

Anti-freeze can help, but that's all......

Bob

PS:
The distilled water in the steam iron was to control the concentration of mineral deposits as the water was converted from liquid to steam and not rust...